Ghost config file Apache2 + subdomain

Using ghost blogging platform with a Apache subdomain is as easy as it may seem.

First I unzipped ghost data at /var/www/ghost/ and followed default install instructions to have it running. Ghost production IP and URL in the config file have to be setted to 0.0.0.0 and http://subdomain.example.com, respectively.

// # Ghost Configuration
// Setup your Ghost install for various environments
var path = require('path'),
	config;
config = {
	production: {
    	url: 'http://subdomain.example.com',
    	mail: {
        	transport: 'sendmail',
        	options: {}
    	},
    	database: {
        	client: 'sqlite3',
        	connection: {
            	filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db')
        	},
        	debug: false
    	},
    	server: {
        	host: '0.0.0.0',
        	port: '2368'
    	}
	}
};

// Export config
module.exports = config;

Second I configured a subdomain called blog that uses apache-proxy to foward ghost port. So the apache config files for the blog are under /etc/apache2/sites-available/blog and follows:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   		ServerName subdomain.example.com
   		ProxyPass / http://0.0.0.0:2368/
   		ProxyPassReverse / http://0.0.0.0:2368/
   		ProxyPreserveHost On
   		<DirectoryMatch /var/www/ghost>
   		Order allow,deny
   		Deny from all
   		</DirectoryMatch>
</VirtualHost>

So finally I would enable the blog:

user@machine:/etc/apache2/sites-available/# a2ensite blog

I think that’s all.